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Fridays For Future holds protest outside Environment Ministry
Why is it in News?
- Students and youth under the banner of Fridays For Future (FFF)protested outside the Union Environment Ministry for scrapping Draft EIA 2020.
Fridays For Future:
- It started in August 2018 The school strike for climate is also known as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate.
- It is an international movement of school students who skip Friday’s classes to participate in demonstrations to demand climate justice from political leaders
- , when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a strike in Sweden.
- One of the main goals of the movement is to put moral pressure on policy-makers, to make them listen to scientists and then to take action to limit global warming.
- It was chosen as UN’s Champion of the Earth award for inspiration and action because of its role in highlighting the devastating effects of climate change.